Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine

The Kremlin’s record of questions put to the Presidents of France and Russia at their joint May 30 press conference omits any message of imprisoned Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko. Human rights are also given a wide berth although they were also certainly raised at question-time. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...

Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader Ilmi Umerov is facing a five-year sentence for saying that Russia should leave Crimea and Donbas, with the preliminary hearing as parody-like as one would expect under such circumstances …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...

Dear friends, After nine very successful fellowship years, the Transatlantic Academy is formally closing on June 1, 2017. It held its final conference on May 23, reuniting its former fellows and the Academy’s partners. The German Ambassador to the United States, the Honorable Peter Wittig, hosted a reception at the conclusion of the...

Last week marked the closing conference of the Transatlantic Academy. For the last nine years, the Transatlantic Academy has brought together scholars and policy experts to explore different dimensions of the transatlantic relationship. For the final year, we focused on the relationship between Germany and the United States. The launch of the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spy network in Germany puts additional stress on the relationship between the two European powers.Download the article (PDF)The Munich Security Conference is generally a good forum for meeting decision-makers in the realm of international security policy. This February, it was business as usual:...

CHINA China police detain gay activists after Xian event canceledU.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT Police in China’s northwestern city of Xian briefly detained nine gay activists, saying the city did not welcome gay people, after they tried to organize a gay rights conference there, one of the activists told Reuters on Wednesday. The move came as...

CHINA China’s Social Credit System: a big-data enabled approach to market regulation with broad implications for doing business in China Mirjam Meissner, MERCATOR INSTITUTE FOR CHINA STUDIES Under the catchphrase “Social Credit System” China is in the process of implementing a new and highly ambitious scheme to monitor, rate, and regulate...

The discussion about the future of the EU cooperation has started. We can refer to the Bratislava declaration of 16 September 2016 and the Rome Declaration of 25 March 2017. As to the contents of the future of EU politics, the Juncker proposals are on the table since the beginning of March. The Commission’s ‘White Paper on the Future of...

By George Friedman Following U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe could no longer rely on others, by which she clearly meant that Europe could no longer rely on the United States. The statement undoubtedly arose in part from her personal friction with Trump. Part of it had to do with...